Sentence examples for pointed allusion from inspiring English sources

"As a prosecutor, he will not turn a blind eye to the abuses of the criminal justice system, like wrongful convictions," Mr. Schumer said, in a pointed allusion to a number of murder convictions under Mr. Hynes's watch that have either been overturned or are now being investigated.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said the White House had "chastened" Israel while pushing an appeasement strategy, a pointed allusion before a Jewish audience that harked back to the diplomacy that Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, pursued in the 1930s with Hitler.

In his most pointed allusion to a rival to date, Gov. George W. Bush began running a 30-second spot yesterday in New Hampshire that criticizes parts of a tax plan offered by his chief opponent, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

A senior defence official said Hagel requested the visit, which comes a day after he told reporters that China must better respect its neighbours – a pointed allusion to Beijing's ongoing territorial dispute with Japan and others over remote islands in the East China Sea.

It was a pointed allusion to Mr. Putin's past as head of the Soviet-era intelligence service and to Mr. Bush's reference at their first meeting in 2001 to having looked the Russian president in the eye and gotten a "sense" of his soul.

In a pointed allusion to Republican nominee Donald Trump, who mocked a disabled reporter in a speech last year, he said that a young Hillary worked on a project that culminated with federal legislation giving disabled children equal access to public education.

There are pointed allusions to two Shakespeare plays.

But Helmuth, so handsome and efficient, has a manicky self-careless streak that produces too many affairs, too many pointed allusions to the Nazi past of respectable families, and too deep an association with a band of motorcycle-riding thugs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has made several pointed allusions to the rival company in recent days, telling journalists that unlike other companies, the iPhone-maker was only interesting in selling hardware – not collecting personal data.

Indeed, he barely acknowledged their existence, beyond pointed allusions to the unity of his party that aides said were intended to remind voters of the quarrelsome character of last week's Democratic convention.

THE president of Russia holds a black belt in judo, once worked for the K.G.B. and has been known, when angered, to make pointed allusions to killing enemies in their outhouses and telling journalists to undergo a bris by a surgeon with lousy aim.